Deeper Exploration of Opening Strategies

Level

Intermediate, Advanced

Recommended Rating

1000 -1700

Topic Purpose

An earlier lesson taught a basic opening strategy for White and Black. Now that you’ve been using it and know more about chess strategy, these lessons will dive deeper into using these openings. 

Also, the thing I hate THE MOST in chess games is losing a game in the ending that I should win. Advanced FBCC classes include endgame studies so that its members excel at winning endgames. Our players are better prepared for endgames than just about anyone else and often win games in the ending that they would otherwise lose.

Lessons: (each lesson is about 90 minutes)

     Lesson 1 learning objectives

• Scotch opening - Trade in the Center. 

     Lesson 2 learning objectives

• Scotch opening - Mieses variation Nb6. 

     Lesson 3 learning objectives

• Scotch opening - Mieses variation Ba6. 

     Lesson 4 learning objectives

• Scotch opening - Kasparov variation.   

     Lesson 5 learning objectives

• Dragon Defense - Classical variation   

     Lesson 6 learning objectives

• Dragon Defense - Yugoslav variation

     Lesson 7 learning objectives

• Dragon Defense - Levenfish variation

     Lesson 8 learning objectives

• Dragon Defense - Review